Victor Moreno, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, reviews that network, security and cloud operations remain very much domain specific tasks with domain specific functionalities, yet the behavior across these different environments can be expressed in a consolidated policy. He explores the architecture, language and interactions that make this Federation possible across Network and Security domains of […]
Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics – Why Network Security Matters with Saravanan Radhakrishnan
Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, looks at how the rapid rise in encrypted communications and security impacts the network. How prevalent is encrypted traffic is in your enterprise? Did you know that encryption is being used by evasive applications and malicious software to escape detection in corporate networks? Can you pinpoint end-points in your […]
Cisco Software-Defined Access – Campus Fabric with DNA Center Automation & Assurance with Shawn Wargo
Shawn Wargo, Principal Engineer, EISG Technical Marketing at Cisco, reviews how the new Cisco DNA Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) solution combines the Campus Fabric and IWAN overlay solutions with Cisco TrustSec, into a common API-driven GUI ecosystem comprised of DNA Center: APIC-EM, ISE, NDP and others. The Presentation introduces the SD-Access and DNA Center, and some […]
Cisco Secure Agile Exchange – Architecture Building Blocks with Miles Davis
Miles Davis, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews how the company plans to use virtualization, switching fabrics, VNFs, and orchestration to manage security policy at the edge of enterprise networks. This includes going through some of the use cases that SAE has to offer including SaaS, IaaS, Private Cloud, and Extranet connectivity.
Cisco eNFV – An Open Solution for Virtualizing Network Functions with Matthias Falkner
Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, explores the openness of the eNFV solution, showing how every layer of the solution stack is exposing the APIs. Support for 3rd party Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and application workloads running on NFVIS is explained. The session also introduces the 3rd party Ecosystem support process, which provides […]
The Building Blocks of Cisco eNFV with Matthias Falkner
Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, reviews supported hardware platforms, the Network Function Virtualization infrastructure Software (NFVIS), supported VNFs, and the management and orchestration stacks. Particular emphasis is given to the newly announced Enterprise Network Compute System ENCS 5104.
Review of Cisco Virtualizing Network Functions in the Cloud with Tony Banuelos
Tony Banuelos, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco, reviews how the company delivers enterprise networking VNF technologies available on public cloud marketplace platforms like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Learn how the Cisco CSR1000V helps meet the demands of businesses moving core applications to public cloud by delivering enterprise class network services inside the public cloud […]
Cisco’s End-to-End Virtualization Strategy for the Enterprise with Tony Banuelos
Tony Banuelos, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco, gives an overview of Cisco’s virtualization solution strategy to enable businesses to deliver a network platform that is agile, secure and extensible. The end-to-end virtualization solution delivers the ability to provision, change and grow network services based on rapidly changing user demands and needs for internally hosted and […]
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches – A New Era of Networking with Muhammad A Imam
Muhammad A Imam, Senior Manager Technical Marketing at Cisco, introduces the Catalyst 9000 Family and will talk about the common foundational elements and attributes of the C9K family of switches that takes us in the new era of networking. It talks about UADP 2.0 and Open IOS XE as the basis of Cat9K Family. The […]
What Cisco Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Can do for the Network with JP Vasseur
JP Vasseur, PhD, Cisco Fellow, discusses how after 30 years of research and progress in the area of Artificial Intelligence, the number of applications is growing exponentially: self driving cars, recommendation systems, automatic reading, biology. This leads to the discussion of two major Machine Learning based products: a massively distributed architecture to detect 0-day attacks […]
Cisco IOS-XE Evolution with Dave Zacks
Dave Zacks, Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, looks at the IOS-XE Evolution, which has changed from a monolithic OS, to a modularized IOS built on top of Linux. Its latest change is to deliver containerized application along side IOS, and to focus on programmability via APIs.
Cisco Flexible Switching Silicon – Unified Access Data Plane with Peter Jones
Peter Jones, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reviews the updates on UADP, but shows that even with the advances in ASICs, new features are rolling out to existing Catalyst 3850 devices. Peter then looks at the flexible ASIC processing pipeline, and how it can be configured to meet an organization’s needs.
Cisco Programmable ASICs and The Importance of Flexible Silicon with Dave Zacks
Dave Zacks, Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, discusses why flexibility in networking has never been more important. The way network engineers design, build, and operate networks is changing rapidly. Traditional network silicon hardware – the network ASICs that form the heart of networking gear – lack the flexibility to handle the rapidly changing networking needs […]
Cisco DNA Enterprise Network Architectures with Mark Montanez
Mark Montanez, Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco, discusses how enterprise network architectures are being challenged by the rapid adoption of mobile, cloud, video, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The emergence of Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning is enabling better real-time decision making, and driving the need for automation and efficiencies to enable these […]












